The Roman Colosseum Deconstructed: 3D Animation Reveals the Hidden Expertise That Powered Rome’s Nice Area

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Most vacationers in Rome put the Colos­se­um on the high of their to-see checklist. (My very own sis­ter-in-law, quickly to move out on her Ital­ian hon­ey­moon, plans to move to that sto­ried smash kind of straight from the air­port.) Even these with no par­tic­u­lar inter­est in historical Roman civ­i­liza­tion, step­ping into the house that was…

A Tour of Historic Rome’s Greatest Graffiti: “We Have Urinated in Our Beds … There Was No Chamber Pot” & Extra

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Other than the likes of bra­vo and piz­za, graf­fi­ti have to be one of many first Ital­ian phrases that Eng­lish-speak­ers be taught in each­day life. As for why the Eng­lish phrase comes direct­ly from the Ital­ian, per­haps it has some­factor to do with the his­to­ry of writ­ing on the partitions — a his­to­ry that, in…